The suspected hoodlums, who were arrested for bolting away with the burnt skulls of the two policemen killed in Ibadan in the wake of the #EndSARS protest disclosed on Friday that they sold the skulls for N1,000.
Adewale Abiodun, 17, and Aliu Mubarak, 24, made the disclosure during an interview with journalists at the Eleyele Police headquarters, Ibadan.
According to the two suspects, they sold the skulls of the burnt policemen to an herbalist living in their neighbourhood.
Abiodun and Mubarak, alongside Oladipupo Ifakorede, the native doctor who bought the skulls, were reportedly arrested at Oluwo area of Ibadan by men of the Quick Intervention Unit of the Oyo State Police Command on Sunday, November 15.
The police said the men were arrested following intelligence gathering and investigation by personnel of the command.
The Commissioner of Police, Oyo State Command, Nwachukwu Enwonwu, said that Abiodun and Mubarak confessed that they took the skulls of the killed police away from the scene of incident and sold them to a native doctor for N1,000.
The CP explained that the human skulls, which had dried up and was broken to pieces, were recovered from the native doctor. Ifakorede confirmed that he paid N1,000 for the heads which he intended to use for ritual.
Abiodun said, “On Monday, October 22, Mubarak asked me to follow him to Alabata area in Ibadan, where his wife was staying. We got to Iwo Road and saw that the road had been blocked. Smoke was bellowing. When we moved closer to see what was happening we saw humans being burnt.
“The mob was hitting the burnt bodies with sticks, and started taking the body parts. Mubarak came to me and said he wanted to take some of the body parts. He said he had someone he would sell them to. Mubarak went to take the two skulls.
“We went to the native doctor’s residence in our neighbourhood. After negotiation, the native doctor gave us N500 with the promise to pay the balance of N500. The native doctor told us he was not the one who would use them, but that he would take them to a Quranic scholar in Ilorin, Kwara State, to use for ritual purpose.
“After leaving the residence of the native doctor, Mubarak and I went to a restaurant and used the N500 to eat. At about 7pm, the same day, the native doctor saw me at a junction in our area and gave me N500 balance. Mubarak and I shared the money at N250 each on the third day.”
Mubarak corroborated Abiodun’s confession, saying,“Some of the people removed hands, legs, fingers and feet, while others gathered the ashes from the burnt bodies and took them away. I told Abiodun that I would take the skulls.
Before then, he said he said he used to sell eggs of local chicken Ifakorede. The herbalist confirmed Mubarak’s story saying he initially demanded N3,000 before they bargained down to N1,000.
The CP said that the men would soon be charged to court.
